Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-02

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special TO the Gazette.
DALLAS, TEX, Jan. News from
Honey Grove is that the track yers On
the northeast extension Of tue Gulf, Colo,
kado Santa Fe reached the corporate
limits If tina, town to night, and that the
irst regular train for Dallas, Cieburne,
remple and Galveston is to leave Honey
i-cUe in the morning. II will
e several days before the finishing
louches are put on and things are in ship
fshape, but the road is considered open a.
far as Honey Grove from this date. Al
forces End energies of the contractors are
NOW to be transferred to the Paris eXten-
sion via Lsdonia, which will be pushed
ks con pleti0n as rapidly as possible.
Nothing of Importance has been heard
from Mr.. Henderson of the Gulf { Pacific
the past ten days, further than that he
was in Boston to-day. The local mana
gers expect some good news by Monday.
Ratican, the well kown contractor and
railroad builder, to-day received tele-
graphic orders from St. Louis to at once
put in bids for work on Missouri Pacific
extensions from Dallas to Waco, BastrOp
TO Houston and from ID 4in9eTfield 10
Texsrkana, as the Missouri Pacific had
concluded 30 at once fill In these missing
links in The Texas system.
1t is very probable the citizens com
mittee for raising the general cash bonus
OF 100000 for four roads will report to
tie public BY Monday. Those in posi-
| ton to know say by that date there will
NSe very little work left undone.
NScl Palmer, probably the Oldest veteran
Telegraph builder in the country, has been
spending the holiday week at Dallas
MIR. Palmer is superintendent of con
struction for the Western Union in the
Second district of that corporation, with
headquarters at st. Louis. His is the
largest territorial telegraphiC district in
the world, embracing all the country be
tween the Mississippi river and
the Pacific ocean. Mr.. Palmer has
been putting in second wire
from Whitesboro to Gainesville,
which work was finished up last night,
the job occupying just full weeks
time. He il also striugiDg Western
Union wires along the Dallas & Green
vile extension of the Missouri Pacific
The town of L lckwall was reached to-
day and connection is expected to be
made at Dallas IS early as January Is
In few days line is to be strug along
the new rosd from Tal lor to Bastrop and
eventually continued on TO Houston
Forces under Mr.. Palmer have just fin
ished new wire along the
Missouri Pacific railroad from Ne
vads, Mo-, to Chetops, Kan.
and will at once transfer operations 10
putting in a new wire from Parsons, Kan,
across the Indian Territory to Denison,
Tex. AS soon as Mr.. Palmer receives the
material, which is daily expected, he will
put in another wire from Dallas to Fort
Worth and then also another from Fort
Worth to Big Springs. During the year
1886 Mr. Palmer superiplended the put
ting up Of over 2000 miles of new Western
Union lines, and expects TO add at least
SIS much mere extension 20 the system
during 1887. His service with the
Western Union dates back to 1915, when
its first wires were struDg-the origi-
inal wire out Of New York city. The
only line of telegraph then in the country
was the one built by the United States
government from Washington to Bslti-
more in 1874. His connection with the
Western Union has been virtually contln-
uous since that time, although during the
war he superintendent the building of all
the federal government telegraph lines,
and for a year and q half had his head